Bill Text: CA SB708 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 708 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Supplemental Security Income and CalFresh: preenrollment.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB708 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 708

Introduced by Senator Skinner
(Coauthor: Senator Atkins)

February 17, 2017

An act to add Section 22 to the Penal Code, relating to crime.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 708, as introduced, Skinner. Sentencing: life without the possibility of parole.

Existing law, as added by Proposition 7 of 1978, as amended by several initiative measures thereafter, specifies the circumstances in which a person convicted of certain crimes shall be sentenced to death or imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. Those initiative measures may not be amended by the Legislature. Existing law, as further amended by Proposition 115 and Proposition 21, requires persons convicted of certain crimes to be sentenced to death or imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Those initiative measures may be amended by a ²/₃vote of the Legislature.

Existing law authorizes a defendant who was under 18 years of age at the time of committing an offense for which the defendant was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole to submit a petition for recall and resentencing to the sentencing court, as prescribed.

This bill would amend the above-referenced initiatives by defining the sentence of life without parole for a person who was under 25 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense as life without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

The bill would require the Secretary of State to submit provisions of the bill to the voters for their approval at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary election.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 22 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

22.

The sentence of life without parole for a person who was under 25 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense is defined as life without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

SEC. 2.

(a) Section 1 of this bill amends an initiative statute and, therefore, shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters at a statewide election.

(b) Notwithstanding the requirements of Sections 9040, 9043, 9044, 9061, 9082, and 9094 of the Elections Code, or any other law, the Secretary of State shall submit this act to the voters for their approval at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary election.